Robert Boyle — first published in 1661; the text of Treatises on the High Veneration Man’s Intellect Owes to God, on Things above Reason, and on the Style of the Holy Scriptures (London, 1836).
Boyle’s defence of the Bible’s style, written in his twenties as part of a longer essay on the Scriptures and addressed to a friend he calls Theophilus. He answers eight objections to the Scripture’s manner of writing: that it is obscure, immethodical, incoherent, full of things trivial or repeated, self-contradictory, less instructive than other books, and unadorned by rhetoric; the last answer runs into a long digression against profaneness and an appendix inviting men of wit to write for religion.
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